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A behavioral model of the German compound feed industry
(2002-03-11)What is frustrating for the applied researcher can constitute an interesting result from a theoretical perspective: the fai1ure of all trials to establish a consistent behavioral model of ... -
A Contribution to the Empirics of Development and Globalization
(2015-05-13)There are arguably few topics in current global economic policy as intensely debated as the impact of different facets of globalization on human development. Given that the concept of globalization reflects a multitude of ... -
A Contribution to the Empirics of Labour and Development Economics
(2014-12-19)This dissertation contains four essays of which the first two essays analyse the regional and individual persistence of unemployment, while the third essay explores the appropriate design for the amount of grant for cash ... -
A Statistical Approach to Feature Detection and Scale Selection in Images
(2000-12-13)In computer vision "feature detection" refers to some procedure that determines candidate positions at which a particular feature, e.g. an edge or a line, could be located. "Scale selection" aims to find the scale or size ... -
Access to Care for Cardiometabolic Diseases in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
(2023-01-26)The objective of this dissertation is to contribute to evidence on access to care for cardiovascular disease (CVD) – the most common cause of death globally – by a) describing the state of hypercholesterolemia care in a ... -
Accounting and Equity-Based Compensation
(2014-04-03)Executive compensation is still at the forefront of not only academic research, but also policy initiatives, news stories, and nationwide discussions. Much of the intensity of the discussion has been caused by the steep ... -
Activity in Social Media related to Business Events: The Case of Merger Announcements
(2017-01-13)Investors use social media in order to access and exchange information regarding recent events in the business and financial domain. Social media support investors to reduce uncertainty about the implications and the ... -
Addressing barriers to human capital accumulation: Essays in development and health economics
(2023-11-17)While health and education, jointly referred to as human capital, are important ends in themselves, they are also important drivers of poverty alleviation and economic growth. Understanding and overcoming the barriers that ... -
Adoption and Benefits of Standardized IT Management Processes: IT Executives Perceptions of ITIL and CobiT
(2011-08-31)The aim of this research is to understand how IT executives of different countries implement and perceive IT operational process improvement frameworks. We examine if IT operational frameworks, ... -
Advances and Applications of Experimental Measures to Test Behavioral Saving Theories and a Method to Increase Efficiency in Binary and Multiple Treatment Assignment
(2017-12-22)This dissertation presents four independent papers that advance experimental methods and test theories on saving using experimentally elicited characteristics. The first two papers test two behavioral theories on ... -
Agricultural Transformation and Land-Use Change
(2017-04-28)Human induced land-use change has direct economic and ecological consequences, which are felt the most in the poorest world regions. Therefore, the key question in land-use change research is how to protect and enhance the ... -
Aid, Politics, Culture, and Growth
(2016-01-07)Political misalignment and greater ideological distance between donor and recipient governments may render foreign aid less effective by adding to transaction costs and eroding trust. In addition, development aid from the ... -
Algorithm Aversion and Other Causes of Bias in Decision Behavior
(2022-11-28)The present thesis contributes to the debate on whether the neoclassical economic theory is suitable to describe economic reality. It covers the three topics of algorithm aversion, analysis of capital market forecasts, and ... -
Algorithmic Decision-Making, Economic Behavior and Predictability in Financial Markets
(2023-05-05)Digital transformation is producing a growing number of technological innovations that have an impact on our daily lives. In a variety of areas, economic agents increasingly have the opportunity to interact with algorithms, ... -
An economic analysis of community-based tourism in Thailand
(2011-04-27)This study constructs a panel data 2003 and 2007, a social accounting matrix (SAM) and a computable general equilibrium model (CGE) in 2007 to investigate the effect of tourism on ... -
Analysis of Implied Volatility Surfaces
(2007-05-30)The volatility of financial assets is an important parameter in risk managemant, portfolio trading and option pricing. Implied volatility (IV) is obtained from the well known Black-Scholes (BS) formula for option pricing, ... -
Analysis of option returns in perfect and imperfect markets
(2020-05-20)The thesis studies index and equity option returns in perfect and imperfect markets to explain parts of the option mispricing puzzle. Perfect markets exist under informational efficiency, market completeness and frictionless ... -
Analyzing the Analyst. Heuristics and Biases, Group Decision-Making and Rational Herding in Forecasting Experiments
(2014-07-25)Analyzing the Analyst. Heuristics and Biases, Group Decision-Making and Rational Herding in Forecasting Experiments -
Angst vor dem Floating", "Angst vor festen Wechselkursen" und makroökonomische Performance
(2009-09-04)This study examines the reasons for the discrepancy between the exchange rate regime that a country states (de jure exchange rate regime) and the exchange rate regime this country follows in reality (de facto exchange ... -
Applications of Advanced Time Series Models to Analyze the Time-varying Relationship between Macroeconomics, Fundamentals and Pan-European Industry Portfolios
(2008-05-09)This thesis is concerned with the modeling of time-varying sensitivities in financial markets. Although interest in applying advanced time series techniques, such as the Kalman filter and Markov regime switching models, ...